Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state funding boost will expand the reach of a free college credential program for direct support professionals, who provide ...

What is a DSP? Direct support professional. Some other titles you may be more familiar with include nurse, job coach, family care provider, personal assistant, personal care assistant, and ...

Helen Keller, at age 13, with Anne Sullivan in 1893. Ms. Keller was stricken at age nineteen months by a disease that left her both blind and deaf. The collaboration of Ms. Keller with Ms. Sullivan, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Illinois lawmakers have increased state budget funding for people with developmental disabilities several times over the past few years. However, the wages for direct ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Lawmakers and advocates say there are serious issues when it comes to a workforce shortage of direct support professionals who assist those with intellectual and developmental ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Disability services are chronically underfunded, and the problem has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Nationwide, the health care industry is seeing a shortage of Direct Support ...

Ellen Gutmaker is the CEO of Arc of Onondaga. Paul Joslyn is the CEO of AccessCNY and a board member of New York Disability Advocates (NYDA). At 5:30 a.m., before most of Syracuse has even turned on ...

SCHENECTADY — Cindy Barkowski’s son, John, receives care from direct support professionals, who tend to his everyday needs. But the industry, she said, faces massive turnover rates and she’s at a loss ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3/Edited News Release) - The Missouri Department of Mental Health and other agencies have developed Missouri Talent Pathways, an apprenticeship program to recruit and retain ...